it seems my Next Generation theory on having a cool episode and then a completely nutty episode is true of the Original Series as well,i have just watched a cool Romulan episode and now this episode Bones is seeing Alice In Wonderland characters on an Earth like planet they have found

Last night I watched The Squire of Gothos and it made me realise that the Futurama episode where the ST cast were included got its idea from this episode

with the Squire being a mischievous youngster alien thing,quite a fun episode though

Arena was next which i think the landscape is featured in Bill and Ted as one of them was watching this episode earlier in the film,where Kirk has to fight with a Gorn(which was quite hilarious with its slow swings),and Kirk had to construct a grenade launcher of sorts with the minerals he finds on the planet where the Arena is taking placeI think a Gorn was in the Commercial recently with William Shatner

then i watched Tomorrow is Yesterday where the Enterprise had gone back to Earth 1960s and they had to arrange it so no one knew they had been there,again fun episode and some good ideas for a 60s show

I think i still have about 9 episodes of this first season(your TV seasons lasted even longer back then!)

I watched the episode where the Klingons first came into it(and they didn't really look like Klingons)

and unfortunately the actor who played Kang in that episode Michael Ansara has just died today aged 91 he appeared in :Star Trek The Original Series episode Day of the DovePlayed Kang for the second time in Deep Space 9 episode Blood Oath(and played Jayal in the DS9 episode 'The Muse') and played Kang one more time in Star Trek Voyager episode Flashback

I watched the episode where the Klingons first came into it(and they didn't really look like Klingons)

I loved the way they dealt with this in the DS9 episode where they inserted the crew into the original Enterprise Trouble with Tribbles episode. When somebody asks Worf about the old Klingons' lack of turtle heads, he just says "We don't like to talk about it."

I watched the episode where the Klingons first came into it(and they didn't really look like Klingons)

I loved the way they dealt with this in the DS9 episode where they inserted the crew into the original Enterprise Trouble with Tribbles episode. When somebody asks Worf about the old Klingons' lack of turtle heads, he just says "We don't like to talk about it."

In a nice bit of cross-series continuity, they actually explained the difference in appearance in Star Trek : Enterprise.

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I watched the episode where the Klingons first came into it(and they didn't really look like Klingons)

I loved the way they dealt with this in the DS9 episode where they inserted the crew into the original Enterprise Trouble with Tribbles episode. When somebody asks Worf about the old Klingons' lack of turtle heads, he just says "We don't like to talk about it."

In a nice bit of cross-series continuity, they actually explained the difference in appearance in Star Trek : Enterprise.

They sure did!

If anyone ever wondered how irritated the Enterprise writers were by hearing people whine that the series wasn't canon, they should watch the last season. I've never seen a more clear example of series saying, "Well fuck all this...if we're getting cancelled, we're going to pack in all the craziest shit we've ever wanted to do first!"

I watched the episode where the Klingons first came into it(and they didn't really look like Klingons)

I loved the way they dealt with this in the DS9 episode where they inserted the crew into the original Enterprise Trouble with Tribbles episode. When somebody asks Worf about the old Klingons' lack of turtle heads, he just says "We don't like to talk about it."

In a nice bit of cross-series continuity, they actually explained the difference in appearance in Star Trek : Enterprise.

I watched the episode where the Klingons first came into it(and they didn't really look like Klingons)

I loved the way they dealt with this in the DS9 episode where they inserted the crew into the original Enterprise Trouble with Tribbles episode. When somebody asks Worf about the old Klingons' lack of turtle heads, he just says "We don't like to talk about it."

In a nice bit of cross-series continuity, they actually explained the difference in appearance in Star Trek : Enterprise.

I watched the episode where the Klingons first came into it(and they didn't really look like Klingons)

I loved the way they dealt with this in the DS9 episode where they inserted the crew into the original Enterprise Trouble with Tribbles episode. When somebody asks Worf about the old Klingons' lack of turtle heads, he just says "We don't like to talk about it."

In a nice bit of cross-series continuity, they actually explained the difference in appearance in Star Trek : Enterprise.

Anybody have to link to that bit o' information?

Yeah, for those of us who didn't watch Enterprise?

Oh, it's the *best!* You'll never guess in a million years!

Spoiler for Hiden:

Dr. Arik Soong, the great-grandfather of Noonian Soong, secretly unfreezes a bunch of genetically optimized human embryos left over from the Eugenics Wars and raises them in the tradition of Kahn Singh. He underestimates their aggression and adaptability though, and "Augments" steal a Klingon Bird of Prey and decide to go to war with the Empire.

The Klingons are impressed by the battle prowess of the Augments and begin trying to reverse-engineer the genetic modifications that created them. Unfortunately, since Klingons are bad at anything that doesn't involve growling or stabbing, they accidentally create an airborne plague that overwrites the Klingon genome with hyper-aggressive human DNA. Side effects include increased strength and speed, the loss of cranial ridges, and death.

Then a Klingon admiral kidnaps the Enterprise's doctor to help create a cure, there are some commercial breaks, and a retrovirus is created that undoes all the damage except for the smooth foreheads. Thus, a small but noteworthy percentage of the Klingon empire grew up looking like humans with tans.

It's so funny seeing so many ideas and pop references come from this series that i never knew before

There were some really good episodes towards the end

Space Seed was pretty good,with Khans first appearance,This Side of Paradise was very strange seeing Spock smiling and in love and hanging upside down from a tree

The Episode with Lazarus fighting with his alternative self was trippy...but i think The City on the Edge of Forever was one of the best episodes this season,it had Kirk and Spock following a deranged Bones to 1930s America and Kirk falling in love with ill fated Joan Collins

The last episode of the season saw Kirk's Brother die at the hands of strange little parasites(plastic blob things)........I didn't even know he had a brother

looking forward to season 2,Star Trek The Original Series has the shortest run of all the Star Trek series(although if you include The Animated Series as 'Season 4' as some apparently do,then it just beats Enterprise)

I watched the episode where the Klingons first came into it(and they didn't really look like Klingons)

I loved the way they dealt with this in the DS9 episode where they inserted the crew into the original Enterprise Trouble with Tribbles episode. When somebody asks Worf about the old Klingons' lack of turtle heads, he just says "We don't like to talk about it."

In a nice bit of cross-series continuity, they actually explained the difference in appearance in Star Trek : Enterprise.

Anybody have to link to that bit o' information?

Yeah, for those of us who didn't watch Enterprise?

Oh, it's the *best!* You'll never guess in a million years!

Spoiler for Hiden:

Dr. Arik Soong, the great-grandfather of Noonian Soong, secretly unfreezes a bunch of genetically optimized human embryos left over from the Eugenics Wars and raises them in the tradition of Kahn Singh. He underestimates their aggression and adaptability though, and "Augments" steal a Klingon Bird of Prey and decide to go to war with the Empire.

The Klingons are impressed by the battle prowess of the Augments and begin trying to reverse-engineer the genetic modifications that created them. Unfortunately, since Klingons are bad at anything that doesn't involve growling or stabbing, they accidentally create an airborne plague that overwrites the Klingon genome with hyper-aggressive human DNA. Side effects include increased strength and speed, the loss of cranial ridges, and death.

Then a Klingon admiral kidnaps the Enterprise's doctor to help create a cure, there are some commercial breaks, and a retrovirus is created that undoes all the damage except for the smooth foreheads. Thus, a small but noteworthy percentage of the Klingon empire grew up looking like humans with tans.

That also talks about Network/Pan and Scan versions which is even longer,and my DVD,as Special Features has 5 additional scenes from the 1979 theatrical version and 11 deleted scenes from the 1983 TV Version..that link talks about the TV Network version being 143 minutes while my DVD is 131 minutes(which means the US version of my DVD will be 136 minutes-our(UK) DVDs apparently run 4% faster than yours(US),Blu Rays however are unaffected)

so with all that extra time on the network versions,is the Director's Edition still the best version as you say?

Series 2 episode 1-Amok TimeIt's Spocks Pon Farr(i was only familiar with this from Star Trek III:The Search For Spock when young newly born but already a teenager Spock was going through it,i gathered it was puberty for Vulcans....this Spock though seems ..older)

And Spock has to fight with Kirk-I now realised why Jim Carrey was humming that tune while fighting Matthew Broderick in The Cable Guy at that 'Medieval Times' restaurant/arena

The band formed in 1986 in Shropshire, taking their name from a Vulcan priestess of the same name in the 1960s sci-fi series Star Trek.[4]

Now i can't stop singing 'Heart and Soul'

It was a good episode,it also introduced Chekov,as Moniker suggested on page 1,it seemed like he had been there all the time..oh and nice Beatles haircut Chekov!

Oh,something i don't like..what the hell have they done with the opening theme?,god awful with that Choir or girls singing it,and Kirks Voice when he is saying those immortal lines over the opening credits sounds distorted on this episode,i am hoping all this is just for this episode and the producers said "yup,sounds like shit,go back to how it was"

One more question that i should of asked for Series 1 as well.....why do they keep getting stuntmen in for non stunts?

Although I haven't played STO in years, my last great memory of the game was a dev-created mission that had you briefly in an Amok Time-style arena battle, and Cryptic had even managed to license the original music from that episode.

As far as the stunt men go, yeah that was pretty ridiculous at times. But you saw that in most shows of that era of the 1960s and early 1970s. Stars just were not interested in doing much of their own stunt and athletic work, and studios seemed to go out of their way to hire stunt folks and body doubles who didn't look remotely like the actual stars.

Although I haven't played STO in years, my last great memory of the game was a dev-created mission that had you briefly in an Amok Time-style arena battle, and Cryptic had even managed to license the original music from that episode.

I remember that mission. It was awesome just because of the classic fight music.

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That crafty Harry Mudd was back ruling a planet of androids,met Spocks Parents and gone against the Klingons again when trying to persuade an alien species to mine on their planet

Today i watched in horror as Kirk and Co.aged rapidly because of some radiation from the tail of a Comet

and Also Kirk getting obsessed with killing a cloud that killed his crew 11 years ago

When i watch these episodes on Netflix,the beginning Voice Over of Kirk('Boldly go where no man has gone before' etc) is really quiet,and is made worse when the music kicks in and you can't hear him even more,however that last episode i just watched(Obsession)it was loud and clear just like it should be,but it turned out that that episode was not a remastered one,and the scenes of the Enterprise were the same from the 60s,not the redone CGi ones..weird that the sound should be so much better on the original recording,i have sometimes had that with Beatles Mono recordings being louder than the Stereo updates

Oh and one more thing,i had to laugh for the write up for the next episode i am about to watch

Three women lay dead,the first was the Belly dancer from the club who went out into the fog alone with Scotty,only to be killed moments later and Scotty holding the knife,The Second was Enterprise crew member Lt Karen Tracy who was left alone in a room with Scotty only to be fatally stabbed 12 times and the third Sybo who was the Prefects wife and an Argelian empath who died in the dark while holding hands with Scotty

So,who is the Killer?

Is it A)ScottyWanting to recreate a typical Aberdeen memory by brutally slaughtering 3 women in one night?

or was it B)That Belly Dancer's Boyfriend who ran out of the bar when Scotty had pulled the Belly Dancer?

or maybe it was C)The Belly Dancer's father who was also in the band?

If you said A,B or C....you would have been wrong

It was actually super secret option:D) Jack The Ripper as a mischievous cloud possessing the bodies of serial killers over the Centuries before finally setting up home in the body of the attorney Hengist to do his foul deeds